Do not resonate with actions: Sentence polarity modulates cortico-spinal excitability during action-related sentence reading

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Liuzza, Marco Tullio ^a,b   Candidi, Matteo ^a,b   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; READING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; READING; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79951817471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016855     Document Type: Article

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